Homeschooling on rise among black families

'Each one of them has excelled so much, and I can see it'

Published: 06/16/2012 at 5:56 PM

(FOX NEWS) It’s the end of another school year, and for a growing number of African-American kids, it will be their last outside the home.

Nationwide, more and more families are choosing to home school their children each year, and the fastest growing segment of the home school movement is African-Americans, experts say. Some 220,000 black children are home-schooled, according to one estimate.

“Each one of them has excelled so much, and I can see it,” Kisha Hayes, of Baton Rouge, La., says of her three children, whom she began home-schooling five years ago. “I can see the difference in their learning.”